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How Trump may affect world’s poorest people

“America First” may be a basis from which to attempt Great Power strategies and realpolitik bargaining, but it is not a slogan that offers hope to countries languishing at the bottom of world poverty tables.

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Broken America: Famed war photographer turns camera on racism, poverty, violence in US

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Ethiopian landslide spotlights landfill squatters

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CNN

N. Korea shuns UN rights review amid outcry

North Korea boycotted a U.N. review of its human rights record, shunning calls for the Pyongyang leadership to be held to account for crimes against humanity documented by the world body.

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Reuters

CBO: 14M stand to lose coverage under GOP plan

The Congressional Budget Office has projected that the number of uninsured people would grow by 14 million in 2018 under the Republican ObamaCare replacement bill, with that number rising to 24 million in a decade. The long-awaited analysis is likely to shake up the debate in Congress over the measure.

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Women’s health services face cuts in the Obamacare replacement bill

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Time

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GOP congressman seeks to soften comments on Medicaid and the poor

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STAT

Scots plans another independence referendum

Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, has confirmed she will ask for permission to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence. Sturgeon wants a vote between autumn of 2018 and spring of 2019.

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BBC

Spicer begins walk-back on wiretap claims

President Trump “does not really think that President Obama went up and tapped his phone personally, but ... the Obama administration, ... there were actions about surveillance ... that occurred in the election,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said.

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Congressional deadline arrives for DOJ evidence on Trump wiretap claims

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Plaintiff says motel forced her into sex work

A Pennsylvania teen girl was allegedly forced to have sex with more than 1,000 men at a motel where her attorneys say she was held against her will as part of a human trafficking ring.

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CBS8

Abominable legacy of gay-conversion therapy

Joseph Nicolosi, one of the pioneers of the practice, died last week. But his contribution to the field of psychology lives on.

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The New Republic

Egyptian prosecution frees ousted president

Ousted president Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for nearly three decades, was released from detention after he was cleared of ordering the killing of peaceful protesters in 2011, Egypt’s official news agency said.

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USA TODAY

Congressman defends racially charged tweet

U.S. Rep. Steve King, known for his sometimes provocative rhetoric, today stood by his inflammatory tweet Sunday that “we can‘t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” The Iowa Republican “meant exactly what I said,” he told CNN.

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GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Erdogan slams Dutch as ’Nazi remnants’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described the Dutch as “Nazi remnants and fascists” as a diplomatic row grows over a canceled rally.

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BBC

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Turkey’s foreign minister vows revenge on Netherlands

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Trump knew Flynn worked for Turkey

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USA TODAY

What’s S. Korea’s future after ousting president

The country will hold a snap election in two months, as mandated by law, and a compressed contest for leadership will soon get under way.

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NPR

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S. Korea considers constitutional overhaul

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Bioengineers recreate how genome evolved

Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould once pondered what would happen if the cassette “tape of life” were rewound and played again. Synthetic biologists have tested one aspect of this notion by engineering chromosomes from scratch, sticking them into yeast and seeing whether the modified organisms can still function normally.

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Scientific American

How to keep safe digitally in WikiLeaks age

In this excerpt from their Facebook Live interview, USA Today’s Elizabeth Weise and Jefferson Graham weigh in on tips to keep your digital lives safe in a Wikileaks era.

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USA TODAY

GLOBAL HEALTH

Lyme disease spreading in US Northeast

Now Lyme is present in more than 260 counties, the CDC reported. The disease shows up in Maine, swoops down the East Coast into Washington, D.C., and southern Virginia.

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Minnesota Public Radio News

Rio to vaccinate population against yellow fever

The Health Ministry has confirmed more than 300 cases of yellow fever during Brazil’s summer rainy season. Over 100 died. Much of Brazil is considered at risk for the disease and people in those areas will be vaccinated.

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Associated Press

Medical residents may be worked 28 hours

The maximum workday for first-year medical residents just got substantially longer. The group that sets rules for training doctors announced it will be scrapping the 16-hour cap on shifts worked by doctors who have just graduated from medical school.

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GOOD NEWS

Nearly 10,000 people ice fish for charity

Can a frozen lake surface stay intact with 19,000 drill holes? Every year over 10,000 people descend on a frozen lake in Brainerd, Minnesota for what is billed as the world’s largest charity ice fishing competition.

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National Geographic

Oklahoma town lifts decades-old dance ban

Kick off the Sunday shoes: Dancing in public is now legal throughout Henryetta, Oklahoma. City leaders have voted to abolish an ordinance on dancing. The dance ordinance, with a penalty of $25, prohibited dance halls within 500 feet of a church or public school.

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Tulsa World

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Ban’s end has townspeople dancing for joy

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PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

U.S. charity closing India ops amid crackdown

Compassion International, a Colorado-based Christian charity, is shuttering its operations in India after nearly five decades as a result of a government crackdown on foreign-funded nongovernmental organizations, the New York Times reports.

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Philanthropy News Digest

CFC in DC raises $1 million more than last year

The Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area (CFCNCA) announced that federal employees contributed more than $47.4 million, which will be distributed to thousands of local, national and international charities.

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NonProfit Times

$13.5 Million donated to Fight Disease

Imperial College of London announced a $13.5 million gift from Good Ventures, in support of efforts to improve public health in some of the world’s poorest countries.

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BUSINESS

Brexit drains UK of European workers

The shortage of British workers in UK hotels and restaurants is so severe that chains such as Pret a Manger will need 10 years to replace EU staff after Brexit, the British Hospitality Association has warned.

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Guardian

Volkswagen guilty of evading emissions laws

Volkswagen pleaded guilty to three criminal counts for avoiding U.S. pollution rules. If a federal judge agrees to the Justice Department’s sentence recommendation, VW will lose more than $20 billion in the U.S., plus lost sales and brand value.

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Associated Press

World’s biggest automaker is coming to India

Tata Motors, the owner of Jaguar Land Rover, has been under pressure at home. It has a reputation for making cheap cars, but wants to move upmarket to capitalize on the growing spending power of India’s middle class.

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ENVIRONMENT

Fukushima women and children still suffering

The Japanese government is trying to get back to normality after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, but the crisis is far from over for women and children, says Greenpeace. Thousands of mothers have sued the authorities.

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Fukushima evacuees face ‘forced’ return as subsidies withdrawn

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Guardian

Activists fear EPA will be gutted

In 2009 the EPA determined that greenhouse gas emissions “endanger both the public health and the public welfare of current and future generations,” opening the door to regulation. Donald Trump’s crusade could make it official US policy that burning fossil fuels poses no threat to Americans.

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Hindu devotees celebrate Dolyata at Belur Math temple in Howrah, West Bengal, India. The festival, also known as Holi, celebrates the end of winter and the triumph of good over evil. Revelers celebrate by dancing and throwing colorful powders and dyed water at each other. (Photo by Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission Belur Math) Photo used under CC BY

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